La Estadidad De Puerto Rico (English Version)

The last 60 years we have asked: what is our identity? What we need to stop thinking we are a colony? What is the difference between our country and the states of The United States? There are severaldefinitions to the term colony. According to different definitions, which apply to my theme, colony is the territory under the military rule, political, administrative or economic foreign nation morepowerful and usually with a more advanced stage of civilization. And a state in a federal system is a territory which is governed by its own laws, even in certain cases submitted to the generalgovernment. But now, how we are being treated?
When we compared ourselves with a federal state of the United States we have more similarities than differences, and at the same time, we have ouradvantages. Like a state of the United States, we have our flag, shield, freedom to choose our governor, own laws, anthem and we even used the same currency. What differentiates us from a state is theexclusion of: the presidential vote, territorial incorporation, representation of voice and vote in the federal congress and the tax on the federal rent. An advantage that can help us be identifiedworld-wide is the international representation in sports. But the most significant difference mentioned, is the representation about voice and vote in the federal congress of the United States, which is animportant key, since it allows us to plead for the laws, benefits and allocations of money. Generally, if we had that power of representation of voice and vote in the federal congress we wouldimmediately stop being a colony and become a state. But, at the moment it does not concern whichever similarities and advantages we have, we do not approve if making Puerto Rico a state of the United States noran independent country.
Our island has been the world's oldest colony, if we want a change, we must know what is needed to turn Puerto Rico into a federal state of the United States or an...